Hey folks, Aaron here.

Welcome to deeper lore, a short bonus episode designed to be a topical guide.

Now because I've noticed some confusion on why exactly I'm making these little bonus guides, I thought I would quickly

revisit the purpose I had in mind. This week my team and I published LORE

episode 251, which is the 275th brand new episode if you count to all of the Lore legends as well.

Never, my friends, did I expect my little podcast to go this long.

But it also presents a problem, right?

Can you remember the episode number of your favorite vampire story?

Or track down that fun deep dive we did a few years ago into the concept of medicinal

cannibalism?

No?

Well, don't feel bad because I need a spreadsheet to keep it all straight I've

covered so much stuff here in the past nine years so for deeper lore my aim is

simple if a new lore episode reminds you of a past episode on the same

topic or if it simply sparked your interest in learning more about that topic, then I figured

that it could be a helpful way to get some recommendations from me to you.

It's not a money grab or a rerun or a way to waste your time. I honestly feel like

there are some old episodes buried so deep in the podcast feed that you might need some help finding them.

So deeper lore is my solution to that. It's me being helpful.

To that end, this week's new lore, 251, is all about the ancient roots of what we might think of as magic.

And thanks to the fantastic research my team did, we were able to time travel back to ancient Greeks and Romans and

see what role magic played in their day-to-day lives.

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